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Title: King's blockhouse, Devil's Peak, Cape Town, 1974
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Weapons, Devil's Peak (Western Cape, South Africa)
Description: Cannon and King's Blockhouse on the slopes of Devil's Peak.
Identifier: islandora:17122

Title: Teachers strike, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Labor unions
Description: No cutbacks: Striking teachers, right, fear the rationalising education will lead to unacceptable pupil/teacher ratios.
Identifier: islandora:17783

Title: Passer-by clasps the hand of a detainee through the bars, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), circa 1985, Prisons, Segregation, Race discrimination, Education, Youth
Description: Clasped hands, a show of solidarity between a detained student and a passer-by during today's symbolic attempt to reopen coloured schools in Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16220

Title: Railway accident, Bellville, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Railways, Apartheid, Labour, Industrial accident, Transport
Description: Workers repair damage after a railway accident at Bellville, Cape Town, in 1979
Identifier: islandora:16834

Title: Protesters push against locked gates of Table View police station, Cape Town
Subject: Table View (Cape Town, South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Police stations
Description: Locked out: Protesters push against the locked gates of the Table View police station yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17757

Title: Bellstar Junction, Cape Town
Subject: Bellville (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Business, Apartheid, Commerce, Transport
Description: Bellstar Junction shopping mall adjacent to Bellville Station
Identifier: islandora:16831

Title: Shelters being demolished, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid
Description: Crossroads squatters look on angrily as their shelter are torn down.
Identifier: islandora:17555

Title: Two police officers wearing their riot gear, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Law enforcement, Protection, Civil unrest, Demonstrations, Weapons
Description: Members of the railways police regional task force after a confrontation with 1000 marching youths in Guguletu yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:15944

Title: Wage strike, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Labor unions
Description: Wage strike, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17747

Title: Fishing industry, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town (South Africa), Fishing industry, Recreation, Ocean, Seafood
Description: Japanese fishing boats take a break at Cape Town docks to take on supplies and overhaul their deep-sea crayfish nets. The heavily equipped vessels have been fishing beyond South Africa's territorial limits.
Identifier: islandora:15021

Title: Street in Atlantis, Cape Town
Subject: Atlantis (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), South Africa. Group Areas Act, 1950, Apartheid, Labour, Industrialisation, City planning
Description: There are now more than 600 houses completed and occupied by employees of new industries at Atlantis.
Identifier: islandora:16701

Title: Retrenchment protest, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Labour
Description: Retrenchment protest, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17853

Title: Young dancers pose in Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Tribes, Traditions, Performing Arts, Music, Economic development
Description: Members of a traditional dance troupe pose against a backdrop of central Cape Town and the Cape Flats
Identifier: islandora:15857

Title: Aerial view of Otto du Plessis Drive, Cape Town
Subject: Aerial views, Ocean, Lion's Head (Cape Town, South Africa), Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), Infrastructure, Building, ,
Description: The Otto du Plessis Drive over the new railway to the container berths in Table Bay harbour has been opened to traffic. The bridge was constructed by Murray and Stewart (Cape Town).
Identifier: islandora:15302

Title: Parking at D.F.Malan Airport, Cape Town, in the 1970s
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Cape Town International Airport, Apartheid, Travel, City planning, Architecture
Description: "Frustration Centre". Lack of covered space at D.F.Malan Airport in which cars and buses can off-load passengers out of the weather is illustrated in this picture of the entrance. Also shown is part of the parking area, which stretches a long distance from the terminal. Mr. Michael Chambers, who has just completed a thesis on airport design, believes that the money being spent on alterations to the airport could be better used on another design system.
Identifier: islandora:15877

Title: Albian Road, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Rondebosch (Cape Town, South Africa), Suburbs, Buildings, Roads, Infrastructure, Residential buildings
Description: House on Albian Road, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:16598

Title: Black woman petrol attendant, Parow, Cape Town
Subject: Parow (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Labour, Apartheid, Women, Influx control, Transport,
Description: An African petrol attendant, one of six employed on the same driveway, fills up at a BP service station in Parow.
Identifier: islandora:15873

Title: Squatter, Crossroads, Cape Town
Subject: Crossroads (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Squatter settlements, Apartheid, Demonstrations, Women
Description: Crossroads - A squatter woman who was one of the many in Nyanga yesterday. The women asked to return to the land they occupied before the fighting last year. Hammers carried by some were symbolic of their wish to build homes.
Identifier: islandora:17574

Title: UWC march to DET offices, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Youth, University of Western Cape, South Africa. Department of Education and Training
Description: University of the Western Cape (UWC) march to the Department of Education and Training (DET) offices, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17799

Title: Devil's Peak, Cape Town
Subject: Western Cape (South Africa), Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa), Landscapes, natural scenery, Environment, Mountains
Description: Table Mountain and Devil's Peak with vlei and birds.
Identifier: islandora:16620

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